Support for ring travelers



G. H. GILLIGAN SUPPORT FOR RING TRAVELERS Filed Jan. 16, 1928- 1?? 126717121 '4' 6 60 1 0 ejZ Gil hiya/11 Patented Get. 23, 1928.

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GEORGE E. GILLIGAN, OF PROVIDENCE, RI'IODE ISLAND, ASSIGNOR TO U. S. RING TRAVELER COMPANY, OF PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND, A CORPORATION 015 RHODE ISLAND.

Application filed January 16, 1828 My invention relates to supports for ring travelers for use upon spinning and twister frames.

It is essential to lubricate the inner face of the ring upon which its traveler moves. At present when a thread upon the. spindle breaks its end strikes the lubricated face of the ring and thus thread upon the spool or spindle is soiled by contact with the thread end, and the thread on adjacent spools is also spattered by the thrashing thread end.

An object of my invention is to provide a structure that will overcome the deleterious results above set forth; another, to insure this end in a form capable of application to a ring plate already fixed to a ring rail. Other objects are simplicity and inexpensiveness.

To these ends primarily my invention consists in such parts and in such combinations of parts as fall within the scope of the ap pended claims.

In the accompanying drawings which form a part of this invention Figures 1 and 2 are a plan view and a side elevation respectively of a ring traveler and a support therefor,

Figure 3, a section of the same and of the ring rail taken on line 3-3 of Figure 1, and

Figure 4, an isometric view of the shield or guard member.

Like reference characters indicate like 7 parts throughoutthe views.

In the drawings 6 indicates any usual ring rail of a spinning or twisting machine, pro

vided with the usual spindle openings 7. To the upper face of the rail around each opening is detachably fixed a shield member 9 shown isometrically in Figure 4. In detail. it comprises an attaching plate or base 10 having oppositely disposed securing lugs 12 provided with diagonally disposed open slots 13 for the admission of attaching screws or bolts 14. This plate has a circular central opening 16 registering with the opening 7 and surrounded with a cylindrical wall. or shield portion 17 A holder plate 19 resting on the shield base 10 is of the substantially annular contour and of the same dimensions as the latter. It, therefore, includes corresponding cars 21 with diagonal slots 22 registering with the lugs 12 and slots 13. The attaching members 14 extend through both sets of slots.

SUPPORT 1961:; TRAVELERS.

Serial No. 247,012.

The holder plate has a central circular opening 24. The material is radially slit from the opemngand upwardly bent forming upwardly inclined retaining tongues 26 offset from the opening 24. The holding plate carries the spinning or twisting ring represented in a general way by the reference numeral 27. This comprises a lateral base flange 28, intermediate web 29 and flat laterally extending operating flange 30. The free ends of the tongues 26 overlap the base flange 28 of the ring and retain the latter firmly in place. The tongues possess a sufficient degree of resiliency to permit the ring to be initially seated in engagement therewith. The upper edge of the shield portion 16 is in the horizontal plane of the operating flange 30 of the r ng, and is very slightly spaced from the ring, thus leaving a narrow annular recess or running space 32 for t tal ring traveler 34 slidably mounted on the flange and engaged in its usual manner with the thread passing from the rolls to the spindle.

The oil or like lubricant will be understood to cover the inner face of the ring 27, where its presence for lubricating the traveler 84 is essential. It will be noted, however, that the shield member 9 and especially its vertical portion or wall 17 is so positioned as to intervene between the lubricating surface and the spindle orifice so that the end of a broken thread laterally distended by centrifugal force from the spindle would be intercepted by the wall.

I claim 1. In a spinning or twisting machine, a ring for supporting a traveler, a holder plate upon which the ring is mounted, and an imperforate ring shield comprising a base plate arranged beneath the holder plate and on which the holder plate rests, said shield having a cylindrical wall extending from the base of the ring to substantially the horizontal plane of the top of the traveler ring encircled by the ring and spaced therefrom to form an annular recess for a traveler.

2. In a spinning or twisting machine, a shield comprising a base plate provided with a central circular opening, and a cylindrical wall upon the plate around the opening, a holding plate resting upon the base plate provided with a central opening registen.

ing with the first opening, tongues upon the holding plate annularly arranged around the second opening, a spinning ring resting upon the holding plate engaged by the tongues and extending to substantially the horizontal plane of the top of the Wall, and means for maintaining the two plates against movement relatively to each other.

3. In a support for a ring traveler, a shield comprising a substantially annular base plate provided With outer peripheral slots, and a vertical cylindrical Wall integral with the inner periphery of the plate, a substantially annular holding plate upon the first plate provided With outer peripheral slots registering with the first slots, and a spinning ring fixed to the holder plate disposed concentrically with the Wall and spaced exteriorly thereof, and attaching members extending through the slots ofboth plates. In testimony whereof I have aflixed my signature.

GEORGE H. GILLIGAN. 

